Some asks whether true nothingness instead of something possible. The correct question should be whether nothingness is conceivable. Or describable (sometimes it is easier to describe).
Let us try to describe nothingness. Scientifically inclined person will often think about the absence of material or energy within a space-time. But this is not nothingness as there is still space. Now what if there is no space, then there will still be laws of physics.
What if there is no laws of physics or mathematical truths or even ethical law. Or even metalaws which governs these laws. This will not be true nothingness either.
Regardless of how well you eliminated all conceivable concepts and forms from nothingness, it still will not be true nothingness. The truth of nothingness being nothingness means that there is a truth attached to nothingness which makes nothingness not true nothingness.
In fact, if you describe nothingness there will be properties attached to nothingness, and true nothingness is void of properties, because properties describe something and when nothingness become something, it cease to be nothing. Nothingness is a paradox.
What can we say about nothingness is. Do you understand (I did not even put a double period there)?
Maybe what we can say about nothingness is nothing is nothing. But nothingness having a name itself is a property. Saying nothingness is an offence to nothingness.
Why it is not conceivable is because we always conceive something. To conceive is to conceive something, just like to think is to think a thought. Thinking about it is an offence to nothingness.
True nothingness is not approachable, it is beyond our reason.
Have you noticed the parallel between God (as a concept) and nothingness? If God is the absolute existence as a respected colleague of mine often say, then nothingness is the opposite of God, he is the anti-God. They are both inconceivable. Beyond the realm of man. We know them only by name. One has His existence as His Essence is His Existence, therefore self-sufficient. The Other
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